Apple, thanks for making this a free upgrade. Sure others had some of thede features first, but none of them have bern free upgrades for The Last 11 Years.
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Apple Releases Final Cut Pro 11 for Mac
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Wasn't expecting it to be a free upgrade.
Going to do some benchmarking between versions with a canned project file. Curious to see if the Mini M4 Pro is a bit quicker on the new version, versus the older version.
Going to do some benchmarking between versions with a canned project file. Curious to see if the Mini M4 Pro is a bit quicker on the new version, versus the older version.
Hopefully they'll add proper anamorphic support. It's insane that that's not a thing in FCP. You can't set clips to have custom 1.33 or 1.5x desqueeze. Insanity!
I bought both Logic Pro *199 dollars and FCP 299 dollars and consider them to be my best personal investment in software over years. Both are feature rich, constantly updated, updates are free.
And I’m not sure if they still do, but they used to offer a sweet bundle price for educators and students. (like $199 for FCP+Logic+Motion+Compressor I think)
It's a free upgrade for Davinci Resolve and Adobe customers. Even Resolve free tier has these features.
I never had Final Cut Pro 7 but I had purchased Final Cut Pro X (over a decade ago) from the Mac App Store using iTunes gift cards that I was able to acquire for ~20% off from various retailers like Walmart, Target, Best Buy & Costco so my net cost of Final Cut Pro X was around $240
For many years, a lot of retailers used to discount iTunes gift cards but stopped doing those deals when Apple switched over to a unified gift card system back in 2020:
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I was curious as to whether I was going to have to re-purchase this (at $299.99) but I’m glad that this article has clarified that that will not be the case
That’s pretty amazing that anybody that had already purchased Final Cut Pro X anytime after it was released (back in 2011) doesn’t have to re-buy it again!
Appears the software is a bit more optomized for newer systems too. I wish I had installed the last version of FCPX before the new update on my M4 Mini to compare, but on my 2023 Macbook Pro M3 Pro, I was able to compare both versions.
Both times are average after 3 attempts.
Both times are average after 3 attempts.
| System | Export 4K HVEC 10-bit HLG Dolby Vision video | Time |
| Macbook Pro M3 Pro (14”) 12 Core CPU 18 core GPU | Export 9:14 4K video (FCP X) | 5:25 |
| Macbook Pro M3 Pro (14”) 12 Core CPU 18 core GPU | Export 9:14 4K video (FCP XI) | 5:18 |
I think they still do. I bought Motion and Compressor for 50 dollars each. Motion especially is a steal at that price. I used it for short animation movies (to be combined in a music video)
The Auto subtitles will save money. It was close to grand for new subs to be created! I hope it’s good
Looks like Apple missing all the deadlines recently. Version 11 barely differs from 10.9 and such. Back in the days each major version meant full design overhaul. Feels like stagnation and same old stuff over and over again. While it is nice existing users get it as a free update, it is basically version 10.9.9
Knock, knock... Maybe it's time for you to replace your machine?
InShot has been good for me too. Slicing clips into full featured videos takes few minutes vs doing it on my mac for hours. It only lacks some layer editing and basic color grading, although over the years I had learned it is better to shoot already colorful video with proper white balance than waste time “grading logs”
Unfortunately it is true. They killed Aperture and failed to deliver their promise of transferring all the features to Photos app. While I don’t mind editing options it offers, they are VERY basic
capcut is an excellent software, though it is geared toward instragram crowd I suppose. I, however, used some of its very cool built in effects for a music video. FCP has huge library of built in plugins, but some Capcut effects are very easy and cool too.
Aperture's soul may be revived in the form of Pixelmator since the purchase 👀